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Open Access Publishing and Public Repositories

Information on open access publishing, depositing health sciences publications in public repositories, copyright considerations, and funding agency requirements.

Public (Open Access) Repositories

Public, or open access, repositories (archives) do not perform peer review, but simply make their contents freely available to the world.

Search Public Academic Repositories

OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
- Authoritative, quality-controlled directory of academic open access repositories.
- Search the contents of all of these academic repositories at once.
SHARE Notify (beta)
- Tool for searching across over 100 public repositories.
- Includes institutional (academic) and disciplinary (e.g., PubMed Central and arXiv) repositories.

Biomedical & Life Sciences Open Access Repositories

PubMed Central
- Full-text archive of biomedical journal articles hosted by the National Library of Medicine.
- Repository of articles arising from NIH-funded research.
bioRxiv
- Repository of life sciences article preprints posted by authors.
- Articles shared prior to publication in journals.
- Hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Open Access Textbooks

Where to Find Open Textbooks
- Curated list of existing open source educational resources.
Directory of Open Access Books
- Academic, peer-reviewed books.
Teaching Commons
- Curated open access educational resources (textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia) from colleges and universities
UW Guide to Open Educational Resources